The Smith machine is the equipment parallel to High Intensity Training. On one hand, it’s been called more dirty names than Madonna on a trip to the Vatican. On the other hand, there are those who vehemently adhere to it in spite of the fact that it’s an inferior way to train.

I’m about as anti-machine a guy as you’ll ever meet, but I’m also open-minded enough to realize that as is the case with most things in life, the answer rests somewhere in the middle.